I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors…

T. S. Eliot
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. ✨ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock l. 73 (1917)
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. ✨ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock l. 73 (1917)

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